Sunday, March 17, 2013

Happy St. Paddy's Day! A day filled with gold, rainbows, and lots of beer. For this month's cupcake of the month, I thought I'd focus on the first two - rainbows and pots of gold. Using a boxed cake mix in french vanilla (white batter so I could dye it), I prepared the batter per the box instructions then separated the batter into 6 bowls. I dyed each bowl of batter a different color of the rainbow using the following Americolor Gels:

Super Red (120)

Orange (113)

Lemon Yellow (107)

Electric Green (162)

Sky Blue (103)

Violet (122)

Using a teaspoon, I layered the colors (one spoonful per color) in the cupcake pan liners, then baked the cupcakes as directed. The decorations were made using a can of whipped cream cheese frosting colored with Electric Green and pots of gold made from melted white Wilton Candy Melts, died with a black and yellow gel and piped into shapes on parchment paper, then refrigerated to harden. Make sure to make your pots of gold thick enough because they are delicate. On a similar note, make extra pots of gold because inevitably there will be annoying breakage!